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Title: |
Associate
Professor of Wildlife Science |
| Phone: |
814-863-1598 |
| Email: |
wmt@psu.edu
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| Address: |
The
Pennsylvania State University
School of Forest Resources
411 Forest Resources Building
University Park, PA 16802 |
- Education:
- B.S., University
of Pittsburgh (1969)
- M.S., West
Virginia University (1971)
- Ph.D., University
of Massachusetts (1980)
- Academic
Interests:
- Biometrics;
plant-animal interactions; population dynamics
- Courses
Taught:
- Wildlife
and Fisheries Population Dynamics; Wildlife Biometrics
- Recent
Research/Educational Projects:
- Damage
to Pennsylvania Agricultural Crops by Wildlife
Wildlife,
primarily white-tailed deer, damage agricultural crops. The intensity
of damage varies by crop type, spatially and temporally. We have
developed a sampling strategy and allocation scheme to provide
unbiased county estimates of damage for two high-value crops,
corn and cabbage. Statewide sampling will begin during the 1995
growing season.
White-tailed
Deer Effects on Regeneration of Mixed-Oak Forests on Public
Lands
Effects
of canopy opening and white-tailed deer on vegetation are being
assessed in south-central Pennsylvania. Three levels of canopy
openings were created March 1993 in three woodlots. Deer exclosures
were established on one-half of the inventory plots. Herbaceous
plants and woody seedlings were inventoried prior to treatment.
Post treatment inventories are being conducted.
- Selected
Publications:
- Palmer,
W. L., G. L. Storm, R. Quinn, W. M. Tzilkowski, and
M. J. Lovallo. 1997. Profiles of deer under different
management and habitat conditions in Pennsylvania. Pages
151-163 in W. L. McShea, H. B. Underwood, and J. H.
Rapole, eds. The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology
and Population Management. Smithsonian Inst. Press,
Washington, D. C.
Gove,
J. H., E. Linder, and W. M. Tzilkowski. 1995. Bimodality
of the combined removal and signs-of-activities estimator
for sampling closed animal populations. Environ. and
Ecol. Stat. 4:65-80.
Storm, G.L., W.K. Shope, and W.M. Tzilkowski. 1994.
Abundance of cottontails at a state game lands unit
irrigated with waste water. J. Pa. Acad. Sci. 68:37-41.
Storm,
G.L., W.K. Shope, and W.M. Tzilkowski. 1993. Cottontail
population response to forest management using clearcutting
and short rotations. Northeast Wildl. 50:91-99.
Tzilkowski,
W.M. and G.L. Storm. 1993. Detecting change using
repeated measures analysis: white-tailed deer abundance
at Gettysburg National Military Park. Wildl. Soc.
Bull. 21:411-414.
Tzilkowski,
W.M., S.E. Fairweather, G.L. Storm, and T.W. Bowersox.
1993. Forest regeneration and white-tailed deer at
Gettysburg National Military Park. Pages 86-96 in
W.E. Brown and S.D. Veirs, Jr. (eds.). Partners in
stewardship: Proc. of the 7th Conf. on Res. and Resourc.
Manage. in Parks and Public Lands. Hancock, Michigan.
The George Wright Society.
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Walter
M. Tzilkowski